View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute. The discovery comes from data collected during researchers’ first few attempts to ...

In this period the whale went out on many food-foraging missions, diving up and down in the water. His longest dive lasted for 16.5 minutes and the maximum depth he swam underwater was 600 feet ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum ... Staff stand in front of a blue whale model. In this photo, taken in the 1930s, the Whale Hall had only just ...